can a co2 tank be used for nitrous?
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can a co2 tank be used for nitrous?
someone stole the bottle off my bike and someone suggested using a pintball gun type tank. anyone ever done this?
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It needs to have a pressure bleed valve and be able to handle at least 1500 psi. Other than that I don't see a problem with it.
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the co2 tanks for paint balls guns should not be filled with nitrous. the nitrous tanks for paint ball guns on the other hand would be fine. when i was way to into paint ball i asked about just filling the co2 tanks and was told it is not a good idea as they are not designed the same and tolerances are different
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Co2 paintball tanks hold 1500 psi.
the "nitrous" tanks are really just compressed air tanks. They don't use nitrous. and they hold between 3k and 5k depending on the tank...
technically, it could work... you might have to mod the system/hook up some to accept the tank and replace the burst disk with a pressure bleed valve otherwise the disk would just blow if the pressure gets much over 1600 psi and you end up with nitrous blowing uncontrollably....
the "nitrous" tanks are really just compressed air tanks. They don't use nitrous. and they hold between 3k and 5k depending on the tank...
technically, it could work... you might have to mod the system/hook up some to accept the tank and replace the burst disk with a pressure bleed valve otherwise the disk would just blow if the pressure gets much over 1600 psi and you end up with nitrous blowing uncontrollably....
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Yes that is correct. However, nitrous bottles use a bleed valve that bleeds off pressure above a certain psi and once it is below the threshold of the valve it closes. Burst disks do exactly what they sound like, they burst and then completely empty the tank.
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Also...on using a small C02 bottle...you would have to turn it up side down. Nitrous bottles have a pickup tube internally that goes to the bottom in order to pickup liquid N20. Gas will not get the desired affect.
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as cheap as little nitrous tanks are (or use to be) it sounds like the easiest and most cost effective thing would be to pick up another instead of trying to convert a co2 tank to hold nitrous
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